El proceso de formación de pueblos y ejidos en la frontera de Buenos Aires. Estrategias de colonización y distribución de la tierra, siglos XVIII y XIX

ALIATA, FERNANDO; BARCOS, MARÍA FERNANDA

On Surveillance and Control at Borders and Boundaries: Landscape, Infrastructures and Architecture

TAB Edizioni de Roma

Lugar: Roma; Año: 2022; p. 195 - 216

Fernando Aliata and María Fernanda Barcos explain the moving from the last part of the Spanish domain to the first stages of the Argentinian government, where the Laws of the Indies continued to be observed to finish subduing the territory, especially the Buenos Aires province. In addition to fortified buildings and civil population centers, a key element in this process was colonization through ejidos (land belonging to the community) -along with quintas (estates) and chacras (farms)- which resulted from the interaction with indigenous land borders and the limits imposed by extensive cattle raising